John 1:30 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me; for he was before me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ This is He of Whom I said, After me comes a Man Who has priority over me [Who takes rank above me] because He was before me and existed before I did.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.

Common English Bible

³⁰ This is the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ This is the one about whom I said, 'After me arrives a man, who has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.

John 1:30 Cross References

Matthew 3:11

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Luke 3:16

John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

John 1:15

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me; for he was before me.

John 1:27

he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe-latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

John 1:31

And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

John 10:41

And many resorted unto him and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.